Kind of a sad story

About a year ago I had a patient of ours come in with swelling above her upper left lateral incisor. Presented as a typical abscess, needs a root canal or extraction. Anterior teeth (front teeth) generally have a single nerve and single canal so the root canal is fairly easy. Shes a sweet older lady who's been in the practice for years, so I told her I'd do it here. Took some more xrays and did some testing before diving in and for some unknown reason.....it just didn't present as a normal abscess to me. The tooth tested non responsive to cold and percussion (teeth with normal pulpal response will respond to cold, the cold won't linger and it will go away once cold is removed from tooth) so I though, yep abscess.

Anyway, I just didn't feel comfortable with it, so I sent her to the Endodontist (root canal specialist). Close friend of mine in Springfield, does a great job, send alot to him. Anyway, he takes a cone beam 3d scan and does the root canal, but the lesion looked a little different to him as well so he sent her to the ORal Surgeon for a biopsy just to be safe.

Surgeon he sent her to is another close friend, he called, "it's probably just a lipoma, shouldn't be a problem to remove but we'll biopsy".

Comes back as Lymphoma. She sees oncology tomorrow.

Hate it for her, but I guess things worked out how they should in terms of us working together for the patient.

That sucks but if you just hillbillied it out of there she wouldn’t have known.

Bumping this to say if you need dental work, O.City and his merry bunch of pretty hot hygienists make even the most anti-dentites happy.

Farms out his root canals, but can’t blame him for that.

Also got to see one of his old Eagle Rare decanters.

That's some gross stuff O.city you need to put that in a spoiler alert.

I just ate now i'm close to hurling.

Not to bag on you good sir but when I was but a young child a dentist of supreme adventure told my parents I needed 4 molars removed because they were blocking teeth coming in behind. Guess what never came in behind? My perfect gay TV star white pearls never came in and I was never offered any leading roles. So I became a cop :shrug:

I was waiting for this to get bumped after today!

Good to see you my friend.

And trust me you don’t want me doin a root canal on you!

O. city,
What do you think of using a Waterpik in comparison to standard flossing?

I got a Waterpik (full sized version) when I had braces several years ago. The dentist office personnel acted as though it was okay for when I had braces but they would prefer that I use standard floss after the braces were removed.

Lately, though, they seem to be all in on a Waterpik. And I suppose that may have something to do with the fact that Waterpik claims that it is better than standard flossing. I recently got a portable, handheld Waterpik and while it is not quite as good as the full sized one, it is good and simple. And works much better for my small bathroom sink.

Eh honestly I don’t have much of an opinion either way. I think they’re bother equally pretty good at what they do, kinda patient preference

Only thing with a water pick is be careful not to turn it up too high, can cause some gum recession. Like a power washer on paint, something’s gonna give

So I have a practice in a city setting, as well as one in a rural area close to where I live. Come up here a few days a week....I enjoy the change up.

Anyway, I get here this morning to open up and there's a homeless (I'm assuming) sleeping by my front door. I was able to get in the door.....what's the protocol here on this?

He's not hurting anything but he moved down in front of the salon next door and is back asleep.

Protocol in Lawrence, KS is to give them the keys to your place, all of your money, food, and to put them on your insurance policy.

Contact the police and report that you have a homeless man loitering around your business. Many times they will help get the person to a shelter.

The neighbor to us is a Lawyer's office, his receptionist was getting here the same time I was. She said she had handled it before so she called and took care of it.

Yep, this.

Same in Minneapolis